African Agriculture and Food Systems
It began with a cardboard box, a Finnish potato enthusiast, and a small Tanzanian company knocking on cold doors in the Netherlands. A decade on, Tanzanian avocados are the backbone of India’s fastest-growing fresh-fruit import trade. This is the story of how a corridor, three institutions and a generation of smallholder farmers built an empire […]
A horticulture farmer in Kibiti built something unusual — a quarterly gathering of professionals willing to sleep in tents, eat buffet meals, and reimagine Tanzania’s agricultural future together. This is the story of the SFO movement and the man behind it. By Kilimokwanza.org Editorial Desk | March 2026 | Bungu, Kibiti, Coast Region The road […]
The Netherlands-headquartered World Agriculture Forum has named twenty Country Directors across Africa, Asia, the Gulf, Europe and the Americas. The appointments mark the operational launch of its national Country Council model — and put nine African leaders at the centre of a rising global platform on food, policy and agri-innovation. By Kilimokwanza.org Newsroom A forum […]
By Kilimokwanza Tanzania’s agricultural export performance has been one of the sector’s genuine success stories in recent years. The value of export crops nearly tripled from USD 1.2 billion in 2019/20 to USD 3.54 billion in 2023/24. Avocado exports surged from 17,000 to 35,000 tonnes in just two years. Meat and leather exports are growing. […]
By Elizabeth Shumbusho Agriculture feeds Tanzania. And Tanzania’s youth — statistically — feed agriculture. Young people aged 15 to 35 make up 62.4 percent of Tanzania’s active workforce. They are already in the fields, in the markets, in the value chains. The question is not whether youth participate in agriculture. It is whether the system […]
It began, as many revolutions do, with something ordinary. Praxeda Melkior, co-founder of Migeto Farm in Kilosa district, had planted lemongrass — mchai chai — between her banana plants for the most practical of reasons: to keep pests away, to discourage snakes from settling near the homestead, and to sell a little on the side […]
By Charles Mwangi Tanzania achieved food self-sufficiency in 2025. It is a milestone worth celebrating — the country now produces enough food to feed its population and is targeting a 150 percent self-sufficiency ratio by 2030 to enable exports. Public investment in agriculture has quadrupled in four years, from TZS 294 billion in 2021/22 to […]
By Kilimokwanza Somewhere in a research station in Tanzania, a plant breeder is looking at rows of amaranth. Each row is a slightly different genetic line, tested across two locations for vegetable yield, seed yield, disease resistance, and performance under the increasingly unpredictable conditions that climate change is delivering to northern Tanzania. Twenty-three such breeding […]
A new partnership between an aviation company and a crop protection body signals Kenya’s serious pivot toward precision farming — and raises the question of whether the sky is now the limit for agricultural transformation. By Kilimokwanza.org CORRESPONDENT | Nairobi, 15 April 2026 When a Kenya Airways subsidiary walks into a room with a pesticide […]
By Kilimokwanza Every tomato that rots in a crate before it reaches a market stall is a double loss. It is income that a farmer will not receive, and it is nutrition that a household will not eat. In northern Tanzania, these double losses are happening at a scale that quietly undermines the food system’s […]